The Hacker is a French electroclash and techno producer who has worked extensively with Miss Kittin. Electroclash describes a style of music that fuses new wave, punk, & electronic dance music. ... Techno is a form of electronic music that emerged in the mid-1980s and primarily refers to a particular style developed in and around Detroit and subsequently adopted by European producers. ... Miss Kittin (real name Caroline Hervé) is an electronica vocalist and DJ. She was born in Grenoble, France in 1973. ...

« L'homme de l'ombre »… From his start in the hardcore technoscene, to the massive success he found with Miss Kittin; Michel Amato aka The Hacker is one of today's most talented and innovative French artists. With influences from Electro (Kraftwerk) to New Wave music (The Cure and Depeche Mode) and familiarity with the French rave scene of the early 1990s his sound is well defined, yet original. Hardcore techno is a kind of techno music closely related to the Gabba style. ... Electro is either a) a prefix used to indicate a relationship to electricity, as in electro-mechanical, or electro-magnet, or b) a stand-alone word. ... Album cover of Trans-Europe Express (1977). ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in American, Australian, British, Canadian and European popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, growing out of the New York City punk rock scene, itself... The Cure is a British rock band widely seen as one of the leading pioneers of the British alternative rock and post-punk scenes of the 1980s. ... Depeche Mode were originally founded in 1980 as a synth rock band in the town of Basildon, England. ... // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining a similar mindset. ...

Michel started making music in 1989 at the age of 17 in Grenoble (France). At the time Duran Duran was an early influence but he later discovered the dark side of Electro through bands like Cabaret Voltaire and D.A.F. In 1993, although in love with the sound of LFO, he took on the hardcore side of Electro and released a few 12”s with Benoit Bolloni (aka The Money Penny Project) under the moniker XMF on the label of the same name. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... View of Grenoble, 2002, with the snowy peaks of the Dauphiné Alps Location within France Grenoble (Occitan: Grasanòbol) is a city and commune in south-east France, situated at the foot of the Alps, at the confluence of the Drac into the Isère River. ... At the height of their fame, Duran Duran (The Fab Five) were featured on the cover of the February 1984 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. ... Cabaret Voltaire is a post-punk industrial and techno group from Sheffield, England consisting of Stephen Mallinder (vocals, guitars), Richard H. Kirk (keyboards, programming) and Chris Watson (keyboards, programming). ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... LFO may refer to: In electronic music, a low frequency oscillation. ... A moniker (or monicker) is a pseudonym, or cognomen, which one gives to oneself. ... The Extensible Music Format (XMF) is a family of music-related file formats created and administered by the MIDI Manufacturers Association. ...

In 1995, he lowered the Beats_Per_Minute but not the energy. Under the name The Hacker he made his own music in classic Detroit style with Jeff Mills in mind. His first tracks were released on the Ozone and Interface labels. Three years later he founded his own label Goodlife Records (a classic track from Inner City) with his friends Oxia and Alex Reynaud. However, he still releases tracks on other labels such as A Strange Day on UMF and Method Of Force on Sativae. The tones of his debut album Melodies En Sous-Sol (spring 2000) surmise his musical dreams where you can hear distant echoes of New Order, Dopplereffekt or the hardcore of PCP. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Beats per minute (bpm) is a unit typically used as either a measure of tempo in music, or a measure of ones heart rate. ... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... Jeff Mills (born 18 June 1963 in Detroit, USA) is an influential Techno DJ and producer from Detroit. ... The term inner-city is often applied to the poorer parts at the centre of a major city. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by the surviving members of Joy Division following the suicide of singer Ian Curtis. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Partido Comunista del Peru, a. ...

His first albums, the 12” Electronic Existentialist (Missile) and Cabaret Futura (Feis) remixed by Greed (Laurent Garnier) put forth the statement that The Hacker was the new messenger of the French Electronic scene. Yet another project that put The Hacker on the international Electro stage. A missile (CE pronunciation: ; AmE: ) is, in general, a projectile—that is, something thrown or otherwise propelled. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Laurent Garnier (born February 1, 1966) is a French techno music producer and DJ. As a DJ at the Hacienda club in Manchester he was a significant player in the Madchester scene in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...

With his friend Caroline Herve aka Miss Kittin, he began producing (1980's) style electro-pop in the mid 90's. DJ Hell loved their first track Gratin Dauphinois on Technics and signed them on his new label Gigolo in 1997. In Germany, their success was immediate owing to the releases of Champagne and Intimités. They began receiving bookings everywhere with Miss Kittin appearing as a dominant nurse and The Hacker cold as ice behind the decks. With the beginning of Electroclash in 2001, and the release of their First Album, they became popular worldwide. They played at parties around the world and were talked about by big name artists such as Karl Lagerfeld, Elton John, Björk or Madonna to name a few. The Hacker is one of the most sought-after producers, doing remixes for Mark Almond, Fischerspooner, Air and Nitzer Ebb. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... DJ Hell is a German House/Techno DJ. He is the label boss of International DeeJay Gigolo Records and has been responsible for many of the big records to come out of the Electroclash or German Squelch scene that emerged in Berlin in the mid ninties. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Electroclash describes a style of music that fuses new wave, punk, & electronic dance music. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Karl (Otto) Lagerfeld (born September 10, 1938 (according to some sources 1933) in Hamburg, Germany) is widely recognized as one of the most influential fashion designers of the late twentieth century. ... Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born March 25, 1947) is a rock music singer, composer, and pianist, and is one of the most successful solo artists in music history. ... Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir IPA: , (born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter with a great expressive range and an interest in many kinds of music including popular, trip-hop, alternative rock, jazz, electronica, folk, and classical music. ... Madonna publicity photo, c. ... Mark Almond is a writer and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. ... Casey Spooner, and Warren Fischer Fischerspooner is an electroclash bonar duo and performance troupe formed in 1998 in New York. ... :This page concerns the French band Air, not to be confused with the Japanese band AIR. Air is a French band, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, founded in 1995. ... Nitzer Ebb (pronounced night-zer ebb or nitz-er ebb - the band themselves pronounced it either way) was formed in 1982 by Essex schoolfriends Douglas McCarthy (vocals), David Gooday and Vaughan David (Bon) Harris on drums. ...

In 2002 after their U.S. tour, Michel and Caroline decide to take a break from their collaberative project. The Hacker took this opportunity to produce many new tracks released vinyl, such as The Beach on Mental Groove and Dance Industria on Tiga's label Turbo. He collaborated with Kiko, Alexander Robotnick, millimetric and David Caretta, touring all over the globe as a DJ and started work on his next album. 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tiga can refer to two different things. ... Kiko can refer to: Francisco Miguel Narvaez, usually known as Kiko, Spanish football (soccer) player. ... For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ...

In 2004 he released his second album Reves Mecaniques. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• The Hacker's official site[link title]